PhotoRehab Wrap Up #19 and New Challenge #20

WE’RE BAAAACK!

So sorry for the short break in transmission, but we are back now for the last few weeks of the year. Cover Makeover is the our themed feature of the Photo Rehab Clinic, created by me and Lucile from Bridging Lacunas.

Every week we give a new prompt, and our participants go to town, using all their creativity, and producing fabulous covers often better than the originals.

Welcome to last week’s Wrap Up and to the new challenge.

Last time, Sabina from Library of Cats suggested that we do a novel from Ayn Rand. While I hadn’t heard of Ayn Rand and I didn’t know much about her, when I took a look I saw that her covers are minimalistic and stunning – see them here.

I have chosen Ayn Rand’s The Romantic Manifesto and here is the cover and full synopsis, both taken from the website linked here:

AynRand_The_Romantic_Manifesto — Original

And here are the covers made by our tireless designers. Please go visit there blogs to see their processes for producing these marvellous cover makeovers.

Julie Powell gives us two stunning covers using a butterfly as her focal point.

Julie Powell 1

Julie Powell 2

Jennifer Nichole Wells give us a wonderful design by blending 3 photos!

3. Sabine and Toby from Library of Cats also gave us a beautifully blended cover, and I like the addition of some text to the cover.

4. Joanne from Coffee Fuels My Photography uses a wonderful New York Christmas window as her backdrop for this intricate cover:

5. Sarah from First Night Design gives us an absolutely delicious cover, which makes my mouth water.

6. StephGhost from Learning: Art, Writing and More uses her own painting as the cover this week, very talented.

7. Geert from Witch With a View brings us two block colour covers this week. I like them both, do you have a favourite?

Witch With a View 1

Witch With a View 2

A fabulous effort all round, I really love these designs.

For this week, I am a little jealous that Lucile is doing the cover. It’s for a book that she is currently reading, called The Happiness Project.

Some information from http://gretchenrubin.com/happiness_project/2009/09/the-happiness-project-book/ :

The Happiness Project is one of the most thoughtful works on happiness to have emerged from the recent explosion of interest in the subject. Rubin weaves together philosophy, scientific research, history, analysis, and real-life experiences as she explains what worked for her—and what didn’t. Her conclusions are sometimes counter-intuitive – for example, she finds that money can buy happiness, when spent correctly – but they resonate with readers of all backgrounds.

I like the relative simplicity of the original cover. I also like that long tagline of possibilities that you can use to inspire your cover. I think we can expect some really fun covers this week and quite diverse as well. Here is dear Lucile’s cover:

Ok, so there’s your challenge, what will you do? Here are the instructions:

Every Thursday we will give you the name of a book, music or movie, etc. and share with you our take on a new cover.
You will prepare you own cover by using your archive photos or shooting a new one to go with the theme.
Prepare your post and publish it. Remember to Ping Back (hyperlink) to this post. You may also copy your link to the comments section of this post.
Use the tag #PhotoRehabCoverMakeover, so that we can find your post in the WP reader.
Add your photo to the link provided below. In this way, you expose your photo to the other participants and the audience of the Photo Rehab.
If you wish, you can add to your post the badge we made for the challenge (below).
We will make a weekly wrap up of all the ingenious cover makeovers photos!
Every Thursday at 12:15 am CET you will find here the combined post. Immediately after that, every Thursday at 12:30 am CET, you will see the post with our version of the cover, which either Lucile or I will create. (Please Note that for the meantime, a single post will appear on either mine or Lucile’s blog at 12:15am CET).

I love this cool little challenge!!
Happy Makeovering!
x Desley & Lucile.